2024 Columns

I get a number of suggestions from readers regarding topics for a column.  For that, I am grateful.  I also get suggestions from some readers about what I can do with the column and where I can go while placing it where they suggest.  For that, I will leave to your imagination. A good example of how this particular column came to be was from an incident related to me by a … [Read more...] about March 3, 2024: A Reader’s Reminder Of The Goodness Within Us

Today, dear readers let us turn out attention to some serious monkey business currently taking place in the Great State of Georgia.  And, no, I’m not talking about stolen elections and fake electors.  I’m talking about monkeys.  Real live monkeys. It seems that Bainbridge, the home of University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart and one of my all-time favorite political … [Read more...] about February 25, 2024: Looking At Some Serious Monkey Business In Bainbridge

By the time you see this, cornbread may be Georgia’s official state bread.  It has been a long time coming and it might not have happened except for the herculean efforts of state Rep. Kasey Carpenter, R-Dalton, who happens to be a restaurant owner when not getting inspiring legislation passed under the Gold Dome. Of course, as with everything in politics there was some … [Read more...] about February 18, 2024: Cornbread Another Official Reason To Love This Great State

How’s this for unbridled hypocrisy?  Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Donald Trump and others for election fraud, said when running for the job as Fulton County district attorney that she would not date any of her subordinates.  According to video footage first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, Willis said on the "The Patricia Crayton Show" in April 2020,  "I will … [Read more...] about February 11, 2024: Some Random Thoughts On Some Random Subjects

To: Sgt. Breonna Moffet.  Sgt. William Jerome Rivers.  Sgt. Kennedy Sanders: I did not know you personally and the likelihood is that our paths might never have crossed.  That does not matter. Today, like your family, your friends and your fellow Americans, I am grieving at the news of your senseless deaths from a terrorist drone attack in Jordan.  You were in the wrong … [Read more...] about February 4, 2024: Reflecting On The Loss Of Three Fallen Heroes